I, for one, really appreciate #Mastodon for allowing one the ability to migrate from one instance to another, thereby not losing one's ever-so-precious "social graph".

Another interesting example of not losing one's "Social Graph" (in a migration from one server to another) is #Deltachat, which uses "AEAP" ("Advanced Email Address Porting").

I think these awesome migration features should be praised more. Taking such control back, over one's social graph is no small victory these days. Such ease of migration is a bulwark against enshittification; it's the easy ability to more elsewhere.

Note: #Buddhism has a comparable tradition of such protection through migration: once monks and nuns gain their "independence", they are much more free to wander from one monastery to the next.

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I have argued a few times that for all practical purposes, the global south does not exist for Mastodon, and for the rest of the Fediverse. But many people I interact with do not quite understand how this works in practice.

This series of posts is an effort to illustrate that mechanism.

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Forget #GlobalNorth users, even #GlobalSouth users cannot find fellow users from their regions, or find posts about the global south, even if both exist.

This happens with most global south users, and with an overwhelming majority of the posts on global south topics.

That’s how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the global south.

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Join Codeberg e.V. – become part of the organisation; part of the resistance – and actively support this valuable and ethical EU-based anti-fascist¹ git hosting alternative that’s under attack by fascists as we speak:

https://join.codeberg.org

Seriously, do it now.²

Volunteer and/or donate if you can.

Let’s send Codeberg’s membership through the roof and show these fucking fascists that when they push we push back twice as hard.

When you do, please add your voice to this thread so others can see.

I rarely ask this but please repost this far and wide.

¹ https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

² If you’re having trouble reaching the server, it might also be under attack. You can check the current status of all Codeberg’s servers from https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

#Codeberg#CodebergUnderAttack#SupportCodeberg #antifascist#EU #european#FOSS#freeSoftware #git #hosting #fediverse #mastodon #community#callToAction

I decided to move servers with this #diningcar account from the big instance "mastodon.social" to "rail.chat".

I did this because, I think the re-centralization is bad. As people join #Mastodon, there’s a natural tendency to join over-sized servers that don’t fit well with the original design of Mastodon and can lead to problems.

This account is a railway-enthusiastic account. I share pictures from trips with dining cars (mainly from Europe, where I live!)

A Ecotxe estam de mudança comunicativa. Hem decidit deixar de publicar a #X, #Facebook i #Instagram per passar-nos plenament a les xarxes socials lliures i obertes del #Fedivers.

➡️ https://url.pangea.org/m2501xfi

Com més serem, més riurem! El 20 de gener, som-hi #juntes!

@vamonosjuntas#Mastodon#SocialMedia#Coop#Cooperativa#Cooperatives#EconomiaSocial#EconomiaSolidària#Fediverse

If you see this post, kindly boost it up so I can find my peeps again!

You've been a good instance.

https://emacs.ch/

#Sad#Fediverse#Mastodon#Farewell

Also other apps like #Tusky or #Fedilab.

Scheduled posts are a feature of #Mastodon itself, even if some user interfaces don't offer this.

Many, many smaller instances have blocked it for very good reasons.

Please talk up the smaller, well-connected communities working hard to provide safe and friendly spaces. :)